“Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of Paradise): they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain…” — Qur’an 9:111
An update on this story. “Deaths in Peshawar hotel attack,” from Al-Jazeera, June 9 (thanks to Not Tucker Carlson):
At least 11 people are reported to have been killed and 46 wounded after a gun and suicide truck bomb attack on a five-star hotel in the Pakistani city of Peshawar.
Armed men entered the Pearl Continental hotel in the northwestern city on Tuesday and explosives were then detonated, government and security officials said.
“It was a suicide attack,” Sefwat Ghayur, Peshawar’s police chief, said.
“Occupants of a double-cabin pick-up truck forced their way in, firing at the security guards. The attackers struck their vehicle into the hotel building, and it exploded on impact.”…
Iqbal Khattaq, the Peshawar bureau chief for Pakistan’s Daily Times, told Al Jazeera that Pakistani intelligence agencies and police had been “tipped off” about a possible attack by militants from the South Waziristan and the Swat region of the NWFP….
“American officials and diplomats were often seen at this hotel; we do not know whether any are among the dead and wounded.”
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The Pakistani military launched its offensive in the NWFP after Taliban fighters moved to within 100km of Islamabad, violating a deal to put the region’s three million people under sharia law in exchange for peace.…
Appeasement never works.